Richard Clay Travis (born April 6, 1979) is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst, and founder of OutKick.

[5] He attracted media attention in late 2004 with his personal blog written while he was living in the U.S. Virgin Islands and working for Dudley, Topper and Feuerzeig.

[6] A Tennessee Titans fan, Travis was unable to get NFL Sunday Ticket, the satellite TV package to watch NFL games in the islands, and went on a "pudding strike", eating only pudding every day for 50 days, with the goal of forcing DirecTV to carry the package in the Virgin Islands.

[9] In 2006, Travis gave up his law practice for good, and when he returned to Nashville he completed an MFA program in fiction writing at Vanderbilt University.

[10] [11] Later, while writing for CBS, Travis began working on a book, Dixieland Delight, where he visited the football stadiums of the 12 then-current members of the Southeastern Conference.

[10] While there, he continued developing his reputation for occasionally "contrarian" opinions and several stories talking about OnlyFans models and adult movie stars.

[citation needed] He later became a co-host of a sports radio talk show, 3HL, on Nashville's 104.5 The Zone with Brent Dougherty and Blaine Bishop.

In 2014, Travis resigned from his role on 3HL[14] and was hired by Fox Sports for its weekly college football Saturday pre-game show.

[21] Travis said online that a Jack Daniel's representative decided that his Twitter commentary on the statue "brings (the company) into public disrepute.

"[22] On September 15, 2017, Travis appeared as a guest on CNN, with anchor Brooke Baldwin, to discuss free speech, specifically whether ESPN personality Jemele Hill should be fired for calling Donald Trump a "white supremacist" and stating that police officers are "modern-day slave catchers" on her personal Twitter page.

[37] On April 15, 2024, Travis suggested via Twitter that New Yorkers sympathetic to Donald Trump try to be selected for jury service and hide their sympathies during the selection process for the former president's "hush money" trial to ensure that he would not be convicted; it was pointed out by media observers and others, including Representative Eric Swalwell, that this post could be considered jury tampering.

[38] Travis's wife, Lara, is a Vanderbilt Law School graduate and practicing attorney as well as a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader.